Anita Carey
- Acting
- April 16, 1948 · Halifax, Yorkshire, England, UK
- July 19, 2023
Biography
Anita Eileen Carey (16 April 1948 – 19 July 2023) was an English actress. She appeared in British television programmes from the 1970s, with her first notable appearances including roles in Beryl's Lot, The History of Mr. Polly and The Spoils of War. She then played Joyce Smedley in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1996 to 1997. After further appearances in various series, she joined the cast of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Vivien March in 2007. She stayed in the role for two years, which won her the British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anita Carey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Last Witness · Joan Caldercott
- Talk to Me · Pauline
- The State Within
- The Murder Room · Tally Clutton
- Rescue Me · Carol Chatwin
- Perfect Strangers · Siblings' Mother
- Doctors · Vivien March
- Still Crazy · Tax Woman
- Midsomer Murders · Barbara Flux
- Band of Gold · Glennis Minkin
- Virtual Murder · CI Grant
- Heartbeat · Helen Rawlings, Babs Crane
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · Miss Rawlinson
- A Kind of Living · Linda
- First Among Equals · Joyce Gould
- Frankie and Johnnie · Patti Blakeston
- Ordeal by Innocence · Martha Jessup
- Juliet Bravo · Melisande Duffy
- Ladies · Sharon
- The Spoils of War · Martha Blaze
- Cries from a Watchtower · Jill
- Something's Wrong · Amanda
- Strangers · Edna
- Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat · Ms. H1B
- Some Enchanted Evening · Sue
- The Testing of Eric Olthwaite · Irene Olthwaite
- BBC2 Play of the Week · Mrs. H1B
- One-Upmanship
- Ripping Yarns · Irene Olthwaite
- I Didn't Know You Cared · Pat Brandon
- Mutinies · Lorraine
- Napoleon and Love · Françoise
- NOVA · Joey's Mother
- Centre Play · Lorraine
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? · Susan Chambers
- Last of the Summer Wine · Mavis
- Queenie's Castle · Frances
- Play for Today · Jill, Sharon
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Sue
- Please Sir! · Air hostess
- ITV Playhouse · Sue
- Coronation Street · Brenda Summers, Joyce Smedley
- Dixon of Dock Green · Carol Hayward